The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-12-14
General News.

tLEAR and cool.
BusrNEss quiet.
RIVER rising slowly.
MUDDY on the levec.
NoTHrSG doing on the landing.
The Annie 2. Silver is due down on hel
way to New Orleans.
THE Buckeye State leaves Cincinnati th,
evening for this port.
TnE Kate Adams leaves here tomorrow
evening for Arkansas City.
THE Chickasaw, Capt. Ed Postal, leave,
this evening for White river.
The City OF Cairo should pass here this
morning on her way to Vicksburg.
DURING the twenty-four hours ending NJ
noon yesterday the river here rose six inches
The Commonwealth arrived at New Or
leans yesterday, and leaves there tomorrow
for Cincinnati.
TnE small trading boat Alvirda arrived
from above yesterday and tied UP below the
foot of Bealc street.
THr Jay Could, with barges, arrived al
New Orleans yesterday, and leaves there this
evening for st. Louis.
TIE Granite State is coming from Cincin.
matt, and should arrive here Thursday. Capt
{. ID. Russell is agent.
clerk, but now a prosperous merchant at
Red Fork, Ark, was in the city yesterday.
TnE big Helena is over due from New Or
leans. Capt. w. IL. Thorwcgan met the boat
nj Greenville and took charge OF her, Capt.
Grisson going in the Office.
TN Joe Peters, from Arkansas river,
brought 213 bales Of cotton and 3,9j7 sacks
OF cotton seed. She returned to that stream
last evening with Il good trip.
Tnr James lee, Capt. Cluggctt, leaves this
evening for Helena, Friars Point and all way
landings. William Ashford. Will Darragh
and Gus Cummins are her clerks.
TnE Coahoma, Capt. Higgins, leaves this
evening for Gold Dust aud all way landings
ON the upper coast. VIM. Smither, Sid
Wheeler nnd Charley Ieftwich are herclcrks.
THE neat aud elegant steamer Hudson,
Capt. Frank Ellison, leaves 1T Q o'clock this
evening for Helena, Tcrrcne, Concordia,
Rverton and all way landings. n. +.
Groves is chief clerk.
THE Paris G. Brown, towing barge. passed
Ia St. Louis yesterday morning. she put OH
at the elevator ~ hogsheads and $40 barrels
OF sugar, 4l1 barrels Of molasses, iW hogs
heads OF cOcoanuts, 80 boxes and y bales Of
dry goods 80 cases VI pepper sauce and 80
eases OF brandy cherries
A'is mann iAN'As lll lNIllat u lfINlNftl ~
be wonderfully phosphoresccnt these nights
between 81. Mark and Port Leon. An cN-
change from near there states that boats seem
~ though they were suspended over molten
mass aud persons on board can see the small
est fish in ten feet Of water
The correct distances between the points
named n obtained by n survey under the III
rcction 81 the Mississippi river commission,
are as follows. a. Wit Head Of passes Ia the
quarantine station, % miles: to Point-a-la.
lnchc, ~ miles; to New Orleans, ~ miles
From New Orleans 10 CarrUlltun the dis
lance il o miles; 10 Donaldson, Is miles; to
Plnqueminc, 10 miles; 10 Baton Rouge, liD
miles; to Bayou Sara, lGi miles; Co mouth of
Rcd river, 800 miles; 10 Natchez, 9G3; to
Nicksburg. $50; 10 Grccnville, AS; To Hell
cnn, Gi', to Memphis, 533 miles, and to
Cairo, o63 miles.
CART. SAM CorFfN. Of the Covington marine
ways, las commenced the construction of q
new steamer which, IL Is said, will work
revolution IN marine architecture. The boat
Is designed aud being built by Col. Mincar,
but u for &. i. Huntington and other. and
" intended Ia PLY on thc Tug fork ui Big
Sandy river, IN connection with the Chattn-
roi railroad. The boat will he a stern-v lrcl-
er, ~ feet long aud IL feet beam. She l.
under guarantee not "a draw over six inches
with steam up, aud make ten miles per hour
on the Ohio river. The boiler will be from
q design Of Col. Mincar, as well A. the appli-
cation Of the motive power.